2021 Volume 16

Answers in Depth (AiD) explores the biblical worldview in addressing modern scientific research, history, current events, popular media, theology, and much more. AiD provides Christians with powerful apologetic answers, careful critiques, and close examinations of the world around them.

Contents

• 2020 Hindsight: The Astronomy Year in Review

  

  Jan. 2, 2021

  Hopefully, 2021 will see the demise of COVID-19 and the many restrictions prompted by concerns about its spread, and so perhaps we soon can get back to normal.

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  Does Isaac Newton’s God Exist?

  

  Jan. 4, 2021

  Dr. Andrew Fabich compares Isaac Newton’s worldview to the “neomodern” worldview that developed after Albert Einstein—and how it relates Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

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  The Present and Future Functions of the Sun and the Moon

  

  Jan. 6, 2021

  There has been some debate among theologians as to whether the sun and the moon will exist in the eternal state.

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• What’s Wrong with The Grand Canyon, Monument to an Ancient Earth?

  

  Jan. 15, 2021

  A geology historian’s book review of “The Grand Canyon, Monument to an Ancient Earth” and why its arguments should fail to convince a careful Bible student.

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  New Genetic Information Proposals Fail

  

  Jan. 30, 2021

  Getting new genetic information is required for evolution—but every proposed (and imaginative) method for obtaining it fizzles one way or another

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  The Evolution of Morality

  

  Feb. 19, 2021

  Darwin’s failed attempt to explain the origin of morality ultimately led to millions of deaths in the 20th century as he rejected the true source for morality in God

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  What Color Was Adam?

  

  Feb. 20, 2021

  The diversity of eye, hair, and skin pigmentations across the globe actually demonstrates a genetic relationship with our first parents, Adam and Eve.

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  Solving the Light Travel Time Problem

  

  Feb. 23, 2021

  An overview of the light travel time problem, how different biblical creationists have addressed it, and the dasha solution to the problem

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  Genetics Proves Absurdity of Whale Evolution

  

  March 12, 2021

  In recent years evolutionists have increasingly promoted the evolution of whales as one of the most convincing examples of macroevolution.

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  Mountain-Building Quiescence in Earth’s “Middle Age”

  

  March 19, 2021

  Uniformitarian storytellers aim to interpret earth’s “Middle Age” while ignoring the only eyewitness to our planet’s catastrophic past: God.

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  Flood Legends from the Americas, Part 1: Continental United States

  

  April 13, 2021

  Oral traditions of the global flood from the continental United States are more prevalent than previously thought and confirm the truth of the Genesis account.

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  Flood Legends from the Americas, Part 2: Canada and the Arctic

  

  April 20, 2021

  Oral traditions of the global flood from Canada & the Arctic are more prevalent than previously thought and confirm the truth of the Genesis account.

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  Flood Legends from the Americas, Part 3: Mexico to South America

  

  April 27, 2021

  Oral traditions of the global flood from Mexico to South America are more prevalent than previously thought and confirm the truth of the Genesis account.

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  Carl Linnaeus: Botanist & Creationist

  

  May 23, 2021

  An historical overview of Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist and biblical creationist who developed the influential Linnaean classification system in biology.

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  Ask the Trees

  

  June 16, 2021

  How reliable is the tree ring data, and can it be conclusively proven that some trees (like Bristlecone Pines) only produce a single growth ring per year?

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  Reading Genesis: ANE Hermeneutic vs. Plain Meaning

  

  June 29, 2021

  Some evangelical scholars today say that we cannot correctly interpret Genesis 1–11 without understanding the worldview of the Ancient Near East (ANE) pagan nations around ancient Israel.

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  Why New Diseases Keep Popping Up

  

  July 3, 2021

  A creation perspective on why God allows emerging and reemerging diseases like COVID-19 and Lyme Disease that cause emotional, financial, and health problems.

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  The Origin of Ticks and the Genesis and Emergence of Lyme Disease

  

  Aug. 4, 2021

  Tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease have plagued humans for millennia. Did God make them that way, and what do they teach us about a fallen creation?

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  Immunity and Creation Science

  

  Aug. 17, 2021

  The immune system does amazing work fighting off pathogens. But where did those pathogens come from?

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  Iron Technology in the Patriarchal Era

  

  Sept. 7, 2021

  Misinformed scholarship about Hittite metallurgy contrasted with the technological advancements of ancient man as demonstrated in the early Old Testament

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  Evidence for Mosaic Authorship of the Torah

  

  Sept. 10, 2021

  Scholars who reject the Mosaic authorship of the Torah are as unwilling as the Jewish leaders (John 5:39–40) in not wanting to listen to the words of Jesus on this subject.

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  Abiogenesis: Can Life Come from Non-Living Chemicals?

  

  Sept. 22, 2021

  It is evident from both Scripture and observational science that abiogenesis is a myth, Genesis is real history, and God is the true life.

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  The Transformational Power of Yeasts: One-Celled Creatures That Burst with Life

  

  Nov. 16, 2021

  Just as the baker uses yeasts to transform hard, flat dough into new bursting life in bread and beverages, the Creator makes new living creatures in Christ.

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  Can Genetic Mutations Be Purged from the Genome?

  

  Dec. 1, 2021

  How mutations could be removed from a genome through inbreeding, though the original integrity could not be restored in reality or in an evolutionary paradigm.

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• The Primordial Lithium Problem Persists

  

  Dec. 4, 2021

  The big bang has been the dominant cosmogony for more than a half century, but the lithium measurements in the universe do not match the model.

• Leyendas del Diluvio de las Américas Parte 3: Centroamérica y Sudamérica

  

  April 24, 2023

  Las tradiciones orales sobre el diluvio global desde México hasta América del Sur prevalecen más de lo que se pensaba anteriormente, esto confirma la veracidad de la historia de Génesis.